Lynn Babcock, MD, MS

Biography

I’m a board-certified pediatric emergency medicine physician with extensive clinical experience in the rapid assimilation of knowledge and application of clinical skills required during the initial presentation of critically ill and injured children. My passions are focused on generating evidence on emergent stratification and treatment of children and mentoring the next generation of academic pediatric emergency medicine physicians.

Through a continual stream of external funding during my career, I have worked to both advance the care of acutely injured children and implement strategies to prevent these injuries. My former amateur athletic pursuits as a figure skater and my family's involvement in myriad competitive sports spurred my research focus of interest in traumatic brain injuries. My goal is to improve the patient-centered outcomes of these children by quantifying the extent of damage through the use of clinical findings and biomarkers and implementing evidence-based treatment strategies.

My experience has allowed me to help train the next generation of physicians at the bedside and in our translational research lab. At Cincinnati Children’s, I play an integral role on the Emergency Medicine Research Committee and the Prehospital Care Committee, and I am co-director of the Acute Care Research Core of the Cincinnati Academic Health Center's Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training. Since its inception in 2001, I have held numerous leadership positions in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, a national research network, and currently serve as the HOMERUN nodal primary investigator, leading the HOMERUN node, comprised of Cincinnati Children’s, St. Louis Children’s and Children’s Wisconsin.